Re: Paper size survey

[Urs Liska]

Am 20.04.2015 um 09:17 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 08:50 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Am 20.04.2015 um 08:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> > > So Ponders,
> > > What size paper do you print scores on?
> I use A4 exclusively, only because that's my printer's capacity (and its
> cheap locally).
> I'm primarily creating stuff for my own use, and avoid page turns by
> opening out three, even sometimes four, pages of A4, having stuck the
> pages together with sticky tape.
> > A4 exclusively, sometimes folded A3
> I'm puzzled, if you fold A3 don't you just get two pages of A4?

Yes, but I think the question was about the actual media and hardware to 
use (and buy), and so it is something different.

> >   (but only when letting print through external service providers).
> Is there a typo in this sentence? (when getting [it] print[ed] ... ???)

Yes, that's what I mean. I don't own an A3 printer.

> > But I always suffer from that being somewhat too small for really
> > usable scores. If I had the printer or would find a suitable service
> > provider I would prefer folded A3+
> yes, a bigger page would be better, but it would be expensive in the
> current situation :(

Yes. There's a reason why most classical publications use larger paper. 
I think LilyPond's default page layout (i.e. the page margins on A4) is 
quite ugly, but if you make the margins larger you have a significantly 
too small page area and line width for notation, so it's probably a 
necessary compromise (think of the page layout LaTeX gives you if you 
simply throw some text on its default document classes).

Urs

> Richard